Year: 2002

Ryan sends word that the Halo Fan Fiction Project now has an informational page to go along with the forum set up a couple of days ago – stop by and get all the details.

Reuters is reporting that a market analyst is predicting a $100 price cut on the Xbox to be announced as early as E3 (in less than 3 weeks). That should jump-start new sales… thanks to Dave Calotta for the heads-up.

The Bungie Store is live. Start your buying. (Thanks, M.A.G…)

Even though there’s a small disclaimer at the top of the Gameplay Tricks section, we still get base stuffing pics, and vehicle balancing pics, and demands for faster action on submissions… to attempt to answer some of this mail, we’ve put together the first attempt at a Gameplay Tricks FAQ – please take a minute…

Mirror, mirror, on the net… We’ve gotten our first mirrors for this morning’s movies – Dave Calotta has provided Hotline access to all four films (links can be found on all the mirror pages), and Masterchief (the creator of Hell Above Water) has provided another mirror for that film. We appreciate the help!

DOH! I hate busy weekends… I miss stuff. 🙁 Music4Games.net has published a special Audio Review of Halo – they gave it a 10/10. Go read it, and see why Halo is head-and-shoulders above the competition, aurally speaking.

HUNTR-KILLR writes to let us know that XBConnect (one of the three options you have for playing Halo online right now, and by some accounts the least laggy) has a new release out, as of this weekend. Version 1.1 adds these features: Host can see players pings Players can see all players in game Language…

It’s not even movie mania – it’s movie insanity! Not 1… not 2… not 3… 4 non-trick movies have been released this weekend! We decided, rather than try to space them out, to simply dump them, whole hog, on the community. Here’s the thing, though – only two of them have download locations that AREN’T…

An interesting pair of wallpapers came in this weekend – another dual-monitor modification, and an interesting piece that came out of a school project – it uses real life locations coupled with Halo artwork. Check ’em both out in our Wallpaper section!

Xerxes writes to point out that Halo Orbit has been redesigned. Check ’em out!

Geez, take a Saturday night off, and things go crazy! Here’s the first batch of uploads – some Fan Fiction for you:Operation False Prophets, Chapter Twelve, by Ian Barnes Effusion, chapter 7, by Tursas The awakening (life of a Spartan), chapter 2, by agsbladerboy55 Halo: Aftermath (gj), chapter 2, by GarlicJr11 Halo: Aftermath comes with…

InToRcEpToR has submitted a pair of desktops, created by applying Photoshop filters to some Bungie-created images. If you like painting on your desktop, check out our Wallpaper section!

A couple of links for you… StarWarsFanMan sent in a link to his Halo Pictures site a bit ago, but the message got buried in my inbox. 🙁 The site contains collections of Halo pictures – including a glitch scene showing TWO Guilty Sparks. We also received word of a clan site, the 67th Raptors.…

That Weasel writes to say that he’s mirrored the large and the small versions of yesterday’s new Halo ‘ad’. You can find the links on our Mirror page – and thanks again to That Weasel Television!

Ever been playing multiplayer and received the message ‘killed by the Guardians’? Ever wondered what it meant? Well, the Seventh Column Chapter HALO National is offering $100 (in a gift certificate to EBWorld) to the best explanation for their existence. Details of this bounty hunt can be found on Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. (Thanks…

A new Halo ‘commercial’ has hit the scene – created by Micro295, it blends footage from the E3 2000 vid, the first Halo commercial, and some other sources, and puts them all to ‘Hero’, by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback and Josey Scott of Saliva (off the Spider-Man movie soundtrack). There are 3 sizes – a…

Yesterday, it was Japan… today, the UK. ELSPA has released their latest figures… and for the week ending April 27th (thanks to the Xbox price drop), Halo has shot up from 18th best-selling game (any platform) to 5th. Amazing what a little discount can do for you…

Whoa! Thanks to Team Overkill, who sent in a scan from the latest issue of ToyFare Magazine. It’s a Wish List article… about Halo action figures! And they’ve done a custom mockup! Very cool.

Update on the Collaborative Halo Fan Fiction project mentioned yesterday – Bonk has kindly set up a forum for discussion of this topic. If you’d like to join, be sure to send your name to Ryan, first…

At long last, HBO is proud to announce… the opening of the Gameplay Tips section! Great thanks go out to CYBRFRK, who coded the whole mess… there’s not a lot of content there yet, but we’re counting on you to change that. Have a gameplay tip? Submit it! We’ll clean it up a bit, and…